Letter signed Maggie Robertson, Eufaula, Alabama, to Thomas Skinker, Sen., St. Louis. I hope your finances are in a particularly brilliant condition as the object of this letter is to request your kind assistance in a monetary point of view. We, after a three years residence in this abominable Yankee town, propose to move to Florida this fall. . . .$200.00 is requisite, money cannot be borrowed down here at any rate of interest, it is so scarce., 1872 July 15

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection consists primarily of Skinker family correspondence, the bulk of which is between Thomas K. Skinker and his wife, Bertha Rives Skinker. The collection also contains several folders of tax receipts of Thomas Skinker dated 1839-1886. This finding aid was compiled by keying in the document descriptions on the folder covers. These document descriptions were presumably written by a Missouri Historical Society archivist soon after the collection was purchased in 1978.